Electronic Telegram No. 1044
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVAE 2007hd AND 2007he
     The "Nearby Supernova Factory" collaboration (G. Aldering, C. Aragon,
S. Bailey, S. Bongard, M. Childress, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, K.
Runge, R. C. Thomas, and B. A. Weaver, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley; C. Baltay, A. Bauer, D. Rabinowitz, and R. Scalzo, Yale University;
G. Rigaudier and E. Pecontal, Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon; C.
Buton, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, G. Smadja, and C. Tao, Institut de Physique
Nucleaire de Lyon; P. Antilogus, R. Pain, R. Pereira, and C. Wu, Laboratoire
de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris; D. Birchall, Institute
for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo; and J. Cough and J. Holtzman, New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces) reports the discovery of two supernovae
in images obtained using the QUEST-II camera on the Palomar Oschin 1.2-m
Schmidt telescope, operated by the Palomar-QUEST Consortium.  Spectra (range
320-1000 nm), obtained on Aug. 28.5 and 28.6 UT with the SuperNova Integral
Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope show both
supernovae to be near maximum.  The R-band discovery magnitudes and
astrometry below were derived from comparison with the USNO-B1.0 catalogue.

SN       2007 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.    z      Type
2007hd   Aug. 22.5    3 08 56.43  -11 16 22.6   18.9   0.09    Ia
2007he   Aug. 24.5    2 51 40.17  -12 39 31.5   19.8   0.12    Ia


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2007 August 29                   (CBET 1044)              Daniel W. E. Green